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The Foundation are behind some of the most popular television shows for children for the past few years, including Mister Maker, Scorpion Island, Finger Tips, Dani’s House and Waybuloo. But one of their shows that is still airing on CBeebies since it’s debut in 2008 is Big Barn Farm, a live action television show that [...]
Here’s yet another amazing step for LOVEFiLM as today we’ve have news that the UK’s biggest movie rental service has partnered with ITV and BBC worldwide to announce that you’ll be able to stream archived footage from the TV’s archives as well as more recent content. The web really is brining all this together and [...]
Spooks is the long-running BBC TV series depicting the multitude of challenges facing the fictional Section D in the British Security Service as they strive to protect Britain from its enemies both within and without. This 10th and final series builds to a massive climax by exploring the secrets in the past of the ever-dependable [...]
‘Who’ saw this coming??? According to Variety, ‘Harry Potter’ director David Yates will bring the BBC’s long-running, much-loved primetime sci-fi series Doctor Who to the cinema screen! Yates is due to commence development on the feature very soon, alongside the US-based BBC Worldwide executive VP of programming and production, Jane Tranter. Little is known about [...]
Long time readers of the site will have seen this before as I’m reposting my love letter to Stephen Volk’s Ghostwatch on the occasion of Hallowe’en. A year shy of its twentieth anniversary it remains a landmark of paranormal drama and has just been reissued on DVD at a ridiculously low price. Things have changed [...]
For those of you who can remember the kids BBC series called Rentaghost (it ran from 1976-84) the idea of a Hollywood remake was a surreal enough to begin with, even with Britain’s very own US import Russell Brand in the lead. But now news from Deadline has Ben Stiller taking over from the comic, [...]
Fans of BBC’s TV series “Hustle” will be pleased to know that another series is in production and I was lucky enough to catch up with them when they were filming on London’s South Bank. “Hustle” has been running since 2004 on the BBC and this marks the eighth series since its inception by creator [...]
Sometimes it’s the simplest things in life that are the most rewarding. Walk on the Wild Side, if you’ve never heard of it before, takes clips from wildlife shows and adds comedian’s voices over the top to impersonate the animals. A simple yet very effective form of comedy, this show is perfect for a Saturday [...]
Until recently, writer-director Nick Murphy’s credits mostly included a few episodes of the odd TV series or documentary. He’s now starting to make a big name for himself with his first feature film, The Awakening, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, due out in November. Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again [...]
In my mind, the British take on spy dramas is consistently better than any of our international counterparts. A new trailer and images for Sir David Hare’s Page Eight have just been released, courtesy of Rope of Silicon, and they’re a prime example of just how good we do things here. The film debuted back [...]
The Lord of Twitter is set to become to Lord of Everything, with the tweeted news this morning that Stephen Fry is to play God is the forthcoming BBC drama about the excessive ecclesiastical response to the 1979 film Monty Python’s Life of Brian. We reported earlier in the week that the film had been [...]
Monty Python’s 1979 film Life of Brian was a masterpiece of surreal and satirical comedy, and always places high when the various Best British Film of All Time polls are announced. On release its controversial subject matter inevitably ruffled a great many ecclesiastical feathers and was banned in some places in the UK, a ban [...]
The Daily Mail is reporting that Ray Winstone and Gillian Anderson are set to star in a reworking of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations for the BBC. The perennial patrons of perspective that they are, the newspaper wastes no time in identifying the ‘sexually charged’ spin that this new production will have. With Winstone attached as Magwitch and [...]
This morning HeyUGuys were privileged to be part of Lauren Laverne’s Morning Show on BBC 6 Music, specifically the section of the show in which she chats to the ‘human faces and fingers’ behind the UK blogs. I went on this morning to talk about how HeyUGuys started up, where we are now, and gave my view [...]
Kidulthood director Menhaj Huda returns to UK cinemas this week with Everywhere and Nowhere, another coming-of-age tale focusing on a British Asian teenager (James Floyd, pictured below) wrestling with how to lead his own life, while having to contend with what’s expected of him from his family and culture. We had the chance to chat [...]
To celebrate the release of Rock and Chips: The Frog and The Pussycat which is released 2nd May, Lions Gate Home Entertainment have given us three copies to give away on DVD. It’s 1961 and Joan is still keeping the Trotter fortunes afloat, holding down two jobs – one at the Ritz cinema and the [...]
With Michael Scott soon set to depart, the makers of U.S. television’s The Office have one last surprise up their sleeves as their protagonist comes face to face with his creator. Fresh from his spot hosting the Golden Globes in which he quipped that star and producer Steve Carell (who plays Scott) was “ungrateful” for leaving [...]
Here’s another wonderful Christmas present from the good people over at the BBC Archive. Following their captivating James Bond at the BBC online exhibition the BBC Archive have collected recorded interviews with the giants of Hollywood’s past which offer a wonderful and unique retrospective on Hollywood and movie making. Giants of the silent era are [...]
From the director of the original Ring (who was also behind both it’s sequel and the US remake’s second installment) comes a London-based cyberspace teen psychological shocker, Chatroom. Five different teens with varying social hang-ups meet online in a chatroom created by William (Aaron Johnson), an introverted teen (and previous self-harmer) who initially appears to [...]
Looks like the Torchwood team are calling on the services of a US President who once saved the world from potential genocide due to a powerful alien threat. Deadline are reporting that Independence Day star Bill Pullman is joining the cast of the Dr. Who spin-off in the reoccurring role of one Oswald Jones, a [...]
